Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and offers a "a brilliant...
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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World by Roberts, Dorothy

Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

$19.99

Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

$19.99
Author: Dorothy Roberts
Format: Paperback
Language: English
An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and offers a "a brilliant and impassioned call for abolition" (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow)

Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system is better understood as a "family policing system" that collaborates with law enforcement and prisons to oppress Black communities. Child protection investigations ensnare a majority of Black children, putting their families under intense state surveillance and regulation. Black children are disproportionately likely to be torn from their families and placed in foster care, driving many to juvenile detention and imprisonment.

The only way to stop the destruction caused by family policing, Torn Apart argues, is to abolish the child welfare system and liberate Black communities.

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest

Author: Dorothy Roberts
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 10/03/2023
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781541675469

About the Author
Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society. The author of five books, including Killing the Black Body, she lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  

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